Meaning you don’t have to run to google for information, because that doesn’t make you intelligent anyone can run to google for information. If you think deeply on your own without google search engine you’ll see yourself becoming a much better thinker and more intelligent. Nicholas Carr says “If were distracted, we understand less, remember less, and learn less.” This is true if you’re using google. Once your on google you’re on the internet, there are so many distractions on the internet that you won’t even be able to use that information you just
First, he mentions some advantages of net, such as convenience, interest, and conciseness. However, due to these advantages of network, Carr finds himself unable to concentrate on reading a whole passage, instead, he is used to seek the interest word and to skim the whole passage. A lot of examples are used to prove that Carr is not the only one who is experiencing this situation. Take one from the examples Carr mentions, Scott Karp, a man who used to work for magazine has stopped reading books since he is accustomed to only spot the fun part of the passage on internet, which is impossible to abstain in reading a long passage. There are also some people prefer this net reading to the traditional books.
Now it is very simple, in a few minutes typing on the keyboard we will get what we need. Therefore, we would not feel the value of what we looked for, because we did not put in any effort, and usually we will forget the information. On the other hand, if we put an effort in while looking for the information, it will stick in our mind and the portion that is forgotten is less. People became addicted to Google; when they need to look for something, the first idea in their mind is Google. However, Google has a huge amount of information and much of it could be wrong.
Nicholas Carr says, in his book, The Shallows, that because of his constant use of computers and the Internet, he has become unable to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time. He can no longer read books without losing interest in them after a few short pages. He doesn’t understand things at great depth, he looks for the shallow understanding of many things. I agree with what Carr said about what using the internet and technology has done to our ability to concentrate and focus on one thing and to read a book and understand things at a deeper level. Since using the Internet, I have noticed that when I look through magazines, I LOOK through them not read them.
It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.” states Nicholas Carr in the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”. Has it ever happened that you stayed on the computer for hours and all you have written is your name and date? This is another effect that the internet has on us today. We easily get distracted and open new tabs to go on face book or any other social websites and make us procrastinate even more. We feel it’s easy to just search up an article in the internet and not even bother to read
This means that anyone to change the information within the article at anytime. Also, the person who edits the information is not required to give any information about themselves and their creditability nor are they required to cite any sources from which their information came from in the article. The Opposition Wikipedia’s articles do contain correct information. Also, there is a team of people who monitor the content that is being put on the website to make sure that the information is accurate. They also have a group of editors that correct any misleading information.
“Is Google Making us Stupid?” In Nicholas Carr’s piece, “Is Google Making us Stupid”, he writes about a topic that is not usually thought about. He argues that the internet has shaped the way readers think nowadays. He starts writing about the supercomputer HAL and how the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman is disconnecting the memory circuits that control HAL’s artificial brain. This is when Carr explains to us that the computer could “feel [its] mind going” (Carr 67). With this beginning, Carr starts to explain to us that his mind has also become much more erratic since his use of the internet.
He states that even as a writer his mind struggles to keep focused on a book, something that is new to him. He blames this on the internet, which he describes as “The perfect recall of silicone memory” (2). He uses his friends as examples, stating that “..many are having similar experiences” (2). While impossible to tell if this fiction or not, one can reason that he’s most likely stating fact. Carr does bring up facts from a London study where results suggest that internet readers aren’t reading in traditional methods and that they do not absorb the text that they are reading.
One can spend hours on the internet obtaining new knowledge. Many believed Huxley’s and Orwell’s visions were a like, but they did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell feared that people would ban books. Huxley feared that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who
Therefore, material on the Web deemed inappropriate should not be censored. A lot of the material that is deemed inappropriate can be easily viewed on the Web. Because of this, someone may enter a website not knowing what is included in that site, and may be “scarred for life.” This is not true. A person is not forced to view any material on the Web and can ignore anything they consider inappropriate. It’s the person who posted the content that should worry about who will view it and the consequences of someone being offended by it.